Messages in this thread | | | From | David Rees <> | Date | Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:13:10 -0800 | Subject | Re: Slow disks. |
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On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@bitwizard.nl> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:52:08PM -0800, David Rees wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@bitwizard.nl> wrote: >> > A friend of mine has a server in a datacenter somewhere. His machine >> > is not working properly: most of his disks take 10-100 times longer >> > to process each IO request than normal. >> >> I've seen noticeable slowdowns before when the disks were running long >> SMART tests. It doesn't seem to affect all drives the same. The >> smartctl data you posted didn't say whether or not the disks were >> currently running a SMART test, but it's worth double checking. > > No, the machine has trouble 24/7, I seriously doubt that it would be > running smart tests 24/7.
It can not hurt to check the status of the disk to be sure...
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